CHEWING GUM MONUMENTS

THEO MICHAEL GRAPHITE WORKS : https://drive.google.com/open?id=19mKF2XydFlAVO0EhuHcfSSh7eSfxj1lj

THEO MICHAEL MODELS AND PRINTS: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11jk1UfwLCCT9eqvdg4XgSgPKlV8ivXfq

Rhapsodies @ Ping Pong , Brussels

some views of the show here:

Review of La Simetria Del Ermitaño in La Tempestad

What Do You Dream Of? The Mohole Flower And Other Tales, August 21-October 27, 2018, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo

La Simetria Del Ermitaño, at Casa Del Lago - UNAM, May 19th until August 26 2018

The Hermit's Symmetry

Theo Michael 

The practice of Theo Michael (Thessaloniki, Greece, 1978 is a hotbed of activity. There is a proliferation of creatures, environments, materials, tools, intangible inventions, shapes and images as diverse as: 

a palm leaf mat, 

Saudi Arabia, humor, 

the Internet, glue, a bacterium, 

architecture, the printing press, a sci-fi comic book, foam rubber, art, 

the screw, Diogenes of Sinope, surplus, evolution, water, politics, success, 

a sleeping bag, collapse, food, childhood, a corner, graffiti, the sound "riuu."  

When merging with the rhythm set by Michael, this melting-pot of mixed origin has the peculiarity of generating a temporal suspension and undefined character on the objective it pursues. In other words, it casts doubts on things we consider static or too elemental to be reconsidered in terms of their use, origin and raison d'être. This feature provides this artist's work with a critical sense of the dynamics of overexploitation, overproduction and inertias of hyperconsumption within our societies and their still prevailing conviction of civilization's linear, homogeneous progress. Or, in other words, what South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han terms "the hell of sameness"—a state or situation in which the only difference allowed is a marketable and therefore fleeting one.

The figure of the hermit—the radical character that distances himself, stops and inhabits a non-civilized space—has taken this room in Casa del Lago as its temporary abode and testing ground. Contrary to his custom, the hermit has left the doors open and, even odder, imagines a possible interlocutor, an audience. 

01, Room 1, Hermit's Symmetry, 360x480x220cm, 2018, various materials

02, Room 1, Hermit's Symmetry, 2018, 360x480x220cm, various materials, detail 01

04, Room 1, Hermit's Symmetry, 2018, 360x480x220cm, various materials, detail 03

06, Room 1, Interplanetary Farmer, 2018, 60x75x80cm, various materials

07, Room 1, Poverty Hedonists, 2018, 100x75x60cm, various materials

08, Room 1, We Didn't Need An Ark But We Build One Anyway, 2018, 60x80x60cm, various materials

09, Room 2, Access To Poverty, 2014, 140x90cm, weathered print on wood panel

10, Room 2, Let Go Of The Designer, 2018, 180x100cm, weathered print on wood panel

11, Room 2, Made By Assistants, 2014, 140x90cm, weathered print on wood panel

12, Room 2, The Documents, installation view  

14, Room 3, Crisis Management Table, 2018, 230x160x108cm, installation view  

15, Room 3, Crisis Management Table, 2018, 230x160x108cm, detail 01

16, Room 3, Crisis Management Table, 2018, 230x160x108cm, detail 02

17, Room 3, Crisis Management Table, 2018, 230x160x108cm, detail 03

18, Room 3, Crisis Management Table, 2018, 230x160x108cm, detail 04